Hi Hannes, Sorry for late reply.. I am using GA-K8NSPro mobo with Seagate SATA disk.. you might like to read this thread re SATA disks on that mobo.. http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/12/msg00030.html I am unsubscribing and going on the road for 2-3 weeks so I may not see any reply till later, but I have been using pure64/sid since last year with that setup and dist-upgraded yesterday and all seems ok good luck Norv